Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

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"Time is the canvas upon which experience paints itself."
Moore, George Edward
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"Beware of the barrenness of a busy life."
Buber, Martin
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"The I-Thou relation is eternal; the I-It relation is temporal."
Buber, Martin
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"The present is the only real thing we truly possess."
Weil, Simone
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"We mistake speed for progress."
Weil, Simone
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"Time is the canvas upon which all achievements are painted."
Moore, George Edward
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"Time is not a circle but a sequence of relationships."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Time is not a line but a living dialogue between past, present, and future."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Time reveals what we value through how we spend it."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Time is not a line but a web of interconnected moments."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Time is not a line but a depth we cannot measure."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"The present is always already past."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"The future is what we cannot anticipate."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Time is not a line but a labyrinth through which we wander."
Weil, Simone
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"Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
Moore, George Edward
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"Time wasted is life wasted, yet time spent in reflection is never wasted."
Moore, George Edward
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"Time is not a container but an opening toward the infinite."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Time opens not as history but as the approach of the Other."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Time reveals what thought alone cannot grasp; duration is where truth unfolds."
Rosenzweig, Franz
R
"The present moment is where past and future converge in the act of becoming."
Rosenzweig, Franz
R
"The present contains the whole of existence; to be fully present is to touch the infinite."
Rosenzweig, Franz
R
"Time is the dimension in which we become ourselves, not a container we move through."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"To write is to enter into a space where time dissolves."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Time is the wound through which infinity enters."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Memory is the only continuity we have in a world of perpetual change."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Memory and anticipation are what make human life meaningful."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Time is the moving image of eternity."
Bataille, Georges
B
"The future is a void, and we are condemned to fill it with meaning."
Bataille, Georges
B
"Time is the space between desire and its fulfillment."
Bataille, Georges